CENTRAL GARDEN & PET CO — Director's Dealing 2017

Jan 24, 2017

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: CENTRAL GARDEN & PET CO (CENT)
CIK: 0000887733
Period of Report: 2017-01-20

Reporting Person: BROWN WILLIAM E (Director)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2017-01-20	Class A Common Stock	A	9696	$0.00	Acquired	2064589	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Class A Common Stock	240000	Indirect
Common Stock	1481879	Direct

Footnotes

F1: The Reporting Person was awarded by the Issuer's Compensation Committee on January 20, 2017 a grant of 9,696 shares of restricted Class A Common Stock, which will vest in increments of 1/3 at the end of years 3, 4 and 5.

F2: These securities are owned directly by various family Irrevocable Trusts and indirectly by the Reporting Person and his spouse as co-trustees of the Irrevocable Trusts. The Reporting Person and his spouse, as co-trustees, have and share investment control over the securities held in each of the Irrevocable Trusts but disclaim beneficial ownership of the reported securities held by the Irrevocable Trusts except to the extent of his and his wife's pecuniary interest therein.